PLANNING AND GROWTH

Steve QuartermainChief Planner

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PlanningApplications& Decisions(LAs)469,000

Neighbourhood Plans

NDO

(Optional)

Local Plan / LDO

OUTCOMES (88% approved)

Yes

Appeals &Decisions(PINS)15,982

No

SoS Recovered Appeals 219

Plan Making

a

SofScall-incases 20

Decision taking

Overview of the planning system

National Policy and Guidance

NPPF

“presumption in favour of sustainable development”

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Core Planning Principles

• Proactively drive and support sustainable economic development to deliver the homes, business and industrial units, infrastructure and thriving local places that the country needs. Every effort should be made objectively to identify and then meet the housing, business and other development needs of an area, and respond positively to sider opportunities for growth.

• The Government is committed to ensuring that the planning system does everything it can to support sustainable economic growth.

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Strategic change: overview

NPPF and Guidance Review

Presumption in favour of

sustainable development

Growth and Infrastructure Act

Localism Act

Strong protections still in place

Unblocking stalled sites

Tackling LA poor

performance

Neighbourhood Planning

Regional Strategy

revocation

Robust Evidence of

need and 5 year land supply

Duty to cooperate

SimpleLocal Sustainable

Proportionate Effective

Deregulation and

Simplification

Information requirements

Speeding up appeals

Award of costs

Permitted development

rights

6000 page s of guidance

reduced and now

on web

1300 pages of policy down to less than 50

Major InfrastructureSection

106

Use Class Order

Statutory consulteesCommunity

Infrastructure Levy

InfrastructureAct

NSIP

Conditions

Brownfieldpackage

Local Plans progress

New homes granted permission: 2007-2014

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Source: Glenigan

Housing is a driver of growth

• Value of new housing £21.7bn in 2013, 31% new work in construction sector.

• Overall construction is around 6% of economic output.

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House building supports employment

• Construction is about 6% of all jobs (2m jobs).

• Housing market also drives consumer confidence, and so wider spending.

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Percentage of decisions in time

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Speed of decisions

Outcomes

• 240,000 new homes approved in the year to September 2014, up 17 per cent on previous year and highest level since 2007

• 78 per cent of major applications decided on time in the quarter July-September 2014, up from 57 per cent in same quarter in 2012

• Time taken to determine an appeal reduced from average of 23 weeks to 15, following changes introduced in October 2013

• Around 12,400 home extensions and 1,800 office-to-residential conversions got go-ahead in six months to September 2014 under new permitted development rights

Progress on Neighbourhood Plans

• 1400 communities have embarked on Neighbourhood Planning

• 200+ communities have published their neighbourhood plan for consultation

• 75+ successful examinations

• 52+ successful neighbourhood planning referendums

• 34 neighbourhood plans “made”

• 13 more referendums in March

• Communities are using their new power to

o choose where new housing should go eg Thame, South Oxfordshireo grant planning permission eg Cockermouth, Allerdale (NDO)o protect local green spaces eg Arundel, Arun

and more …..

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Wider Initiatives

•Brownfield Implementation

•Right to Build

•Permitted Development

•CIL Review

•S106 Process

•Housing Design Standards

•Guidance - SUDS

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FORWARD LOOK

• Implementation

• Land Availability

• Plan Making

• Red Tape Challenge

• Impact on Behaviour

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What Might This Look Like?

• Have a vision

• Have a plan

• Have a commitment: understand resources

• Positive – make it happen – attitude

• Work with customers and wider community

• Consistency

• Speed – efficiency – active engagement

• Communication

• Team work – internal – external

• OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES, OUTCOMES

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PLANNING AND GROWTH

Steve QuartermainChief Planner